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robo slime makes art! and also music
white | 24 | he/they | autistic | ace
i like green

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encountersltd @encountersltd.bsky.social · Jan 7
"Somebody Has Sabatoged the Power in My Own Home"
Acrylic paint and acrylic marker on canvas, 2025-2026
A small canvas about 7 inches long and 5 inches wide, is covered throughout by a bluish-black coat that is intentionally slightly uneven and somewhat messy on the edges. From the right edge of this scene, an anxious, armless cartoon creature walks in, timidly clutching a lit flashlight in their frowning zig-zag mouth. This creature also sports a blue pallor, a somewhat long and rectangular head/body, striped legs ending in fin or frond-like feet, three ears like a cat's, freckles, and an antenna sprouting from their leftmost ear. From their flashlight emits a host of various shapes, dots, lines, and patterns, that all come together to form a golden ray of light.
encountersltd.bsky.social
way too many people have created a successful cartoon and become a rancid person, to say nothing of those who weren't one already. having morals and not crossing lines genuinely isn't all that difficult, people!
February 13, 2026 at 8:32 PM
encountersltd.bsky.social
I love how David Lynch's infamous Angriest Dog in the World in his deconstructive simplicity resembles less a canine and more a beached whale
February 13, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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maggietokudahall.bsky.social
Estelle the pigeon is an icon.

From a photo by @bearofoses.bsky.social
A lovely white pigeon with green on her scruff stands in front of a portrait of herself sitting on a branch. Text says I am an icon. Painted in acrylic with a green background.
January 29, 2026 at 5:04 AM
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maggietokudahall.bsky.social
I did a different kind of painting last night/today and I like it ok!
A bunch of ghosts floating like they're a school of fish. One says "oh," another says "no" and a third says "don't go" Painted in acrylic over a bisexual background
February 9, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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maggietokudahall.bsky.social
If you saw the creepy Ring Super Bowl commercial then you know they're manufacturing consent for a surveillance state (that serves ICE) by emotionally blackmailing us with our dogs' safety.

This flyer can be printed out and posted all over, or shared online. Get your $ back, fuck ICE.
Title: Ring cameras feed data to ICE to help round up immigrants Subtitle: ✨ Get a full refund direct from Amazon ✨ Body: In the past few months Amazon Ring enabled AI and facial detection by default for all users. Worse, they altered existing features such that your footage can end up in the hands of Flock Safety, the company responsible for 80,000 license plate readers across the country. ICE has been documented using Flock to know exactly where to go to find susceptible community members. Don’t help ICE round up your neighbors. What can I do? You can get a full refund directly from Amazon. Request a refund telling them their agreement with Flock is a breach of trust and invalidates the reason you invested into their security products in the first place. Amazon refunds because what they are doing is blatantly against the Terms and Conditions under which you originally purchased. ➡️ Reolink or Defender PhoenixM2 are great comparable camera alternatives. ➕ Request refunds for Amazon Blink Cameras as well on basis of lost trust.
February 11, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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maggietokudahall.bsky.social
Today's pigeon is a salty dog
A sea captain pigeon smoking a pipe stands on one talon and one wooden leg, surrounded by a rope, a message in a bottle, an anchor, and a life preserver. Painted in acrylic over a blue background
February 12, 2026 at 10:34 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
Hey definitely call your senators about this. Like seriously.
aclu.org ACLU @aclu.org · 2d
BREAKING: The House passed the so-called SAVE America Act which threatens to upend our freedom to vote.

The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.
February 12, 2026 at 3:29 AM
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umaw.bsky.social
This week, UMAW launched a massive coalition action with 11 other partner groups calling for the passage of the Living Wage for Musicians Act, the bill to finally make streaming services pay artists fairly. Join us and take action at the link below.
January 29, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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fire-toolz.bsky.social
going out of your way to not sound like another artist will limit your creativity. when you feel inspired by something, run with it. that's your true authentic heart thirsting to manifest itself as art. true inspiration is a divine impulse, not a copy of someone else's work
February 7, 2026 at 9:09 PM
encountersltd.bsky.social
I dunno. The idea of any entire, valid artistic medium along with all of the tools and tricks of its trade going the way of the dodo just makes me incredibly saddened...
February 11, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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encountersltd.bsky.social
I'm certainly don't advocate that artists should be forced to go back to an antiquated system that is so much more time and physically intensive than what we have now that it would be unreasonable to go back, but it is kind of sobering to know that traditional cel animation is exctinct, more or less
October 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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encountersltd.bsky.social
The specially made equipment isn't being produced, and there's not too many people trained in the art around anymore. Honestly, for the sake of the 9-to-5 animation workers themselves, moving away from cels was the right call, but I also feel pretty bad the *practice* has died out
October 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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encountersltd.bsky.social
I do wonder when the next big cel animatiin revival passion project is. It's been quite a while since Cuphead. And even if I doubt I'll ever be able to get my hands on one of those bulky cel cameras, I would like to experiment with the cel art form. Just to see how it tastes (figurative)
October 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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pleasantlytwstd.blacksky.app
Hey y'all.

A South African dev released a blackity black game during BHM and it's currently getting the usual suspects in the reviews.

Imma grab this up myself anyway, but can we all be some chums and help push the racists out of the reviews? 🙂
nyamakop.co.za Relooted by Nyamakop @nyamakop.co.za · 3d
“Please enjoy the museum”:

Relooted is OUT NOW!

Please share!
February 10, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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encountersltd.bsky.social
Found this unusual letter discarded on the ground where I do my daily walks. I doubt it was meant to end up in my hands. Sorry
The front of the postcard, depicting a surreal low-polygon and pixellated 3D environment. Against a sky full of packed-together clouds is an unusually purple expanse of ground, with a flat texture like a craggy landscape. In the back to the left is a low-poly castle with several parapets and pointy roofs, submerged halfway into the ground. In the foreground, right of the castle) is a tall 2D cartoon character rendered on a white marquee placed into the environment, rotated slightly to the right): she looks like a humanoid robot or cyborg popping out of striped hexagonal jack-in-the-box with a large crank. Her long sleeveless dress highly resembles a gumball machine (down to a crank bow-tie). Her gloved arms sit by her hips; looks made of gumballs, and the other like a stick of gum. Her head, encased in some sort of round hood or helmet, sits on a somewhat long metallic neck. Visible within a circular opening in the helmet/hood is her face, with pink skin and light-green eyes and a mouth. She looks off above with a content smile, with her face slightly tilted. The back of the postcard. There's a stamp and blank mailing address lines on the rightmost third. Taking up the rest is a message from the character from the front, in a pixellated handwriting-like font. "Hi, Amie P.! Just been goin' for a stoll here in wherever this is. Will meet you and the other yous back at the Timeplane tonight for the meeting! Love, Bally!"
August 7, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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encountersltd.bsky.social
we ghosts of christmas three
In this digital drawing, three soft spotlights shine down upon redesigns for the Three Ghosts of Christmas, from A Christmas Carol. The trio is colored in a slightly blurred and outside-the-lines fashion, suggesting their spectral nature. On the left is the Ghost of Christmas Past, a tailed spirit whose shape and green coloration with red highlights resembles mistletoe. His torso is a heart-shaped scrapbook overstuffed with faded photographs, one of which has gotten loose, which he bashfully picks up with one of his spindly arms. He also wears a wide folded-paper collar, a pine tree shaped tie, and an old paper crown, and his eyes are in the shape of a rewind sign. In the middle, the Ghost of Christmas Present stands, and part of her body is a gift box, a literal present! Her teal upper body and tall head, sporting just two sets of diamond-shaped eyes and a tuft of hair, emerges up from the box, and her short arms, similar to wings, are clasped. Behind her are two wings fashioned from red, thick decorative ribbons, complete with bows. A snow-like polka dot pattern and more ribbon decorates her boxy boxy, which ends with bent stick legs at each bottom corner. Finally at the right is the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come, whose main body is a pile of yellow sand, topped by two curved eyestalks. Their sullen expression seems disappointed and saddened; sand tears fall from one eye and rejoin their body. Below their sand-pile torso are a simplistic belt and pants ending in thin feet, and a halo floats above their eyestalks. All of this makes their shape and design closely resemble an hourglass, albeit without a visible glass case.
December 28, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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encountersltd.bsky.social
ProtOS is a spectacular piece of story writing because it starts with just a guy who's made a game out of pretending to dislike games and gradually snowballs into one of THE most horrifying and jaw dropping lines of dialog in object show history
October 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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encountersltd.bsky.social
Bandcamp I know full well that you are updating how payouts work. What if I don't Want to have to sign up for another payment processor I only heard existed this year and from what I know is hardly any better than paypal
October 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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encountersltd.bsky.social
Diversity is GOOD
Diversity is GOOD
Diversity is GOOD
Diversity is GOOD
Diversity is GOOD
Diversity is GOOD
Diversity is GOOD
Diversity is GOOD
Diversity is GOOD
Diversity is GOOD
October 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
encountersltd.bsky.social
Speaking as an autistic artist, I find it disgusting how people seem to love talking about 'logo kids' like they're subhuman. It doesn't magically become okay to treat a living human person like that, neurodivergent or otherwise, just because you have a problem with the way they express themself
February 11, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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encountersltd.bsky.social
"Somebody Has Sabatoged the Power in My Own Home"
Acrylic paint and acrylic marker on canvas, 2025-2026
A small canvas about 7 inches long and 5 inches wide, is covered throughout by a bluish-black coat that is intentionally slightly uneven and somewhat messy on the edges. From the right edge of this scene, an anxious, armless cartoon creature walks in, timidly clutching a lit flashlight in their frowning zig-zag mouth. This creature also sports a blue pallor, a somewhat long and rectangular head/body, striped legs ending in fin or frond-like feet, three ears like a cat's, freckles, and an antenna sprouting from their leftmost ear. From their flashlight emits a host of various shapes, dots, lines, and patterns, that all come together to form a golden ray of light.
January 7, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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adequateemily.bsky.social
People talk about the newgrounds and “edgetube” eras in a weird way, where they either act like no one knew any better that saying slurs was bad (they did) OR act like it was JUST a few individuals they hate (it was widespread) and it depends on how they feel about the creator.
August 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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lynnsenpai.bsky.social
Friendly reminder that money speaks louder than anything. If you're currently using Nitro, you really should cancel it. I'm sorry if it means not being able to use your emotes wherever you want or whatever it actually does, but this is a little bigger than emotes.
February 9, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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legendofnerd.bsky.social
Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)
Tl;dr: The vast majority of adults will never have to interact with our age assurance systems and their experience won't change, because we know Discord and how people use it, so we're designing to respect privacy and deliver a safer experience while minimizing friction for adults. Hey folks – I’ve been on Discord since very early 2016 and actually joined the company in 2017. Safety is one of my areas, so today’s announcement on our blog is something I’ve been pretty involved with. I’ve always cared about Discord's approach to privacy (E2EE for A/V was another of my projects here), so I figured I’d add some more context to today's news. I can say confidently that the vast majority of people will never see age verification. I say this because we launched age assurance in the UK and Australia in 2025, and we have some pretty good data on this now. The idea here is that we can pre-identify most adults based on what we already know (not including your messages!), and that looks to get us pretty far here. No face scans, no IDs, for the vast majority of adults. And if you are one of the smaller subset of folks that we can't definitively pre-identify, then still, you only have to do it if you're accessing age-restricted servers or channels, or changing certain settings. That's really not most users. (Altho... might be more Redditors, tbh.) Last, I know that there is concern about privacy and data leaks. That's a real concern. The selfie system is built purely client-side, it never leaves your device, and we did that intentionally. That'll work for a bunch of users who aren't pre-identified as adults. But if you do end up in the ID bucket, then yeah, you're right that has some risk. We're doing what we can to minimize this by working with our range of partners (who are different partners than the data leak you read about), and if it's any help, we learned a lot internally from the last issue. But I get if that doesn't necessarily inspire more confidence. Anyway, we’ll be sharing more next month as we get closer to the global roll out about the system, including the technology behind it in March. I honestly wouldn't be happy if we didn't build something good and I am excited about what we’re launching, but please let us know what you think when we share more details. And I really appreciate everybody's feedback here today. We’re definitely reading it!
February 10, 2026 at 1:43 AM
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myrid.space
boosting again because this is really urgent!!! I went in the negative this month having to pick up bills and groceries and such to help my sister while she's been dealing with pancreatitis and relapsing, I'm in a really really tight spot rn and any help goes a long way!!!
myrid.space MYRID @myrid.space · Dec 22
hey y'all im once again super super fucked!!! i had a bunch of bills hit me all at once and im once again in the hole...
if anyone wants to purchase anything on bandcamp it would rly rly be a big help

if you still wanna support but already bought my music i have a ko-fi as well!!!!
ko-fi.com/myrid
January 21, 2026 at 8:33 PM